Groundwater and Soil Cleanup

Improving Management of Persistent Contaminants

• Author(s): National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, Committee on Technologies for Cleanup of Subsurface Contaminants in the DOE Weapons Complex,
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Pages: 304
• ISBN_10: 0309172837
  ISBN_13: 9780309172837
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Science / Earth Sciences / General , Nature / Natural Resources ,

Description:...

This book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date review of technologies for cleaning up contaminants in groundwater and soil. It provides a special focus on three classes of contaminants that have proven very difficult to treat once released to the subsurface: metals, radionuclides, and dense nonaqueous-phase liquids such as chlorinated solvents.

Groundwater and Soil Cleanup was commissioned by the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of its program to clean up contamination in the nuclear weapons production complex. In addition to a review of remediation technologies, the book describes new trends in regulation of contaminated sites and assesses DOE's program for developing new subsurface cleanup technologies.